A State of Apocalyptic Psychosis

Above is a screen shot of the Palestinian Media Watch site. This is the link: http://www.palwatch.org/ 

Here is something I have written about the "two-state solution" for Quadrant Online: http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/12/state-apocalyptic-psychosis/

A 'consultant on conflict resolution' could not be more wrong if he tried

Courtesy of the Hawar News Agency

Here is an assessment of the Syrian Civil War made by Dr Christof Lehman, a consultant on conflict resolution, back in August 8, 2013. I am not one for ad hominem attacks and so, in a personal sense, I wish Christof the very best. Nevertheless, it is worth reading his 2013 missive if only to marvel at how this fellow could get absolutely everything wrong. It is like a miracle in reverse:
http://nsnbc.me/2013/08/08/euus-al-qaeda-massacres-on-kurds-for-oil-and-secession/

Avert your eyes: No global warming for at least eighteen years and two months - and maybe much, much longer than that.

I do not believe in Santa but this photoshopped image is real  

Just quietly, if I were of a Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) bent and read what was at the other end of the following link I might very well lose my anti-bourgeois bohemian 'religion' and even have a nervous breakdown. So, if you believe in CAGW, and a latter-day faith in CAGW props up your worldview, please do not click on this link. Again, I warn you, comrade, do not click on the following link. The truth can be a terrible thing: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/12/03/onward-marches-the-great-pause/ 

CNN reports on the devastation inside Kobani

A scene from the brief report

Here is Nick Paton Walsh's CNN report on the latest inside Kobani: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/03/world/meast/syria-kobani-fighters/

If Iraq is to be anything it will be a confederation

Here is a fascinating insight into the mentality of the leaders of the Anbar tribes who are currently losing out against the millenialist psychotics known as the Islamic State (IS). Eventually they will be a part of a complicated alliance that destroys the IS, the ultimate result being an Iraqi state but not a unitary Iraqi state: http://www.aawsat.net/2014/12/article55339148

All perpetrated under Rudd & Gillard administrations

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has - finally - investigated some of the horror that resulted from the Australian Labor Party's partially open-door policy (2007-13): http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-02/navy-personnel-open-up-about-border-protection/5933260  

As I wrote in the July 2014 edition of Quadrant: "There are, to repeat, only two moral options available on the subject of the people-smuggling industry and the deaths of innocent people on the high seas. You can be an anti-bourgeois bohemian internationalist and demand our border control regime be minimized to such an extent that there no longer remains grounds for the middleman, the people-smuggler, to ply his trade. Conversely, you can adopt a comprehensive border protection program: offshore processing facilities; towing-back procedures; a degree of secrecy to foil the calculations of people-smugglers; and, not least, a strong determination to carry out the policy." The ALP, tragically, chose a third way and much suffering ensued. See the whole article:

 http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/07-08/boat-people-brought-rudd-gillard/

Israel & the Media

Arab youth engage in a little sieg heiling at a university in East Jerusalem (Matti Friedman) 

Here is an important (if not new) article by Matti Friedman in Tablet magazine: http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/183033/israel-insider-guide